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A book club starter shelf

Books that survive being talked about - strong opinions welcome, no clean answers required.

literary-fictionstarter
@luke·
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Lessons in Chemistry
A Gentleman in Moscow
Pachinko

A cosy mystery starter shelf

A body, a village, and someone thoroughly unqualified to investigate who does it anyway. Nobody here is in real danger - that's the whole point.

mysterystarter
@luke·
The Thursday Murder Club
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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The Marlow Murder Club

A romantasy starter shelf

Where romance and fantasy properly collide. Start anywhere on this shelf - you'll know within a chapter whether you're the fae-court type or the war-college type.

fantasyromancestarter
@luke·
Fourth Wing
A Court of Thorns and Roses
From Blood and Ash
The Cruel Prince

A translated fiction starter shelf

Six countries, six translators, none of it reads like homework. A gentle way into fiction from outside the English-language shelf.

literary-fictionstarter
@luke·
Norwegian Wood
The Vegetarian
Convenience Store Woman
My Brilliant Friend

A literary horror starter shelf

Horror that's after your thoughts more than your nerves. Slow dread, precise prose, nothing here needs a jump scare to work.

horrorstarter
@luke·
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Mexican Gothic
House of Leaves
The Only Good Indians

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